Inspiring words creatively penned.
Take a closer look:
The State of the Union address was given Tuesday night by President Obama. Twitter did a very clever marketing and research tactic. They issued five specific hashtags to track during the speech to see the reaction of tweets. The five hashtags were:
- #Education
- #Energy
- #Fairness
- #Jobs
- #Manufacturing
Of these five, #Education was the most tweeted and #Manufacturing was the least. Here is an infographic about the tweets in regards to the President’s speech.
If you’ve never heard of Steam, it’s a PC/Mac gaming portal (like an iTunes App Store) that gives its users instant access to over 1,100 games that can be purchased, downloaded and played from any computer. There is also a community you can engage in, chat with friends while gaming, get automatic game updates and best of all, enjoy Steam-only special offers that included low prices and free-play weekends.
With a soon to be released mobile app, users will be able to purchase new game releases and special offers straight from their iPhone or Android, something that previously could only be done from the Steam desktop app.
If those in support of SOPA/PIPA were really interested in stopping piracy, they would follow Steam’s lead.
Last week, my wife asked me about one of my tweets.
This normally isn’t a big deal, since it’s certainly not the first time she’s asked me about one of my tweets. What made this situation unique, was the fact that I hadn’t actually penned the tweet myself.
I was happy to find it wasn’t SPAM. No one wants to “be that guy,” but I still wasn’t comfortable with tweets going out that were not actually mine.
Why did it happen?
I had given permission on my Twitter account to an online app a number of months ago. I promptly revoked the permission and went through and cleaned up my Twitter account permissions.
Now, what about Facebook, LinkedIn and others?
Here is a handy tool to help you determine what apps have permissions to access your private information:
This is what you get when you combine the television shows “24″ and “ER” into one program. The result is Danger Hospital!!!
Mixing these two “worlds” results in a pretty ridiculous scenario.
Is the Church doing the same thing every Sunday morning?
It’s called, “The Geocities-izer,” and it can make any webpage look like it was made by a 13 year-old in 1996.
You know, back when websites were built “the old fashioned way” with Notepad? When counters were cool and Netscape was the best browser?
Good times.
Here are what some websites look like when Geocitified:
How often do you notice product placement in television and film?
I seem to notice products more (or the lack thereof) when they’ve given something an imaginary label or do a lousy job hiding an Apple logo or Dell insignia on a laptop.
Now, here’s a quick look at Apple products as they appear throughout film:
Can you imagine what life will be like when we’re old?
All of us tech geeks in 50+ years?
I wonder what kind of “digital wisdom” we’ll be passing down?
If you liked the Internet tips your Grandma should have given you, but didn’t, you’ve got to read these:
Cut the Rope is a game app for your iPhone, iPad and Android phone or tablet, but you can also play it online — for free!
It falls under the class of Angry Birds with its cute cartoon look and feel, and centers around motion physics and cause-and-effect. Like other casual games of this nature, it’s stupidly addicting.
The coolest aspect of Cute the Rope is the development, since the web browser version of the game is an authentic translation of the mobile apps, showcasing some of the best of what HTML5 has to offer: canvas-rendered graphics, browser-based audio and video, CSS3 styling and the personality of WOFF fonts.
Recently PayPal brought on a new Vice President – Don Kingsborough.
Normally, this wouldn’t make for very interesting reading, but Kingsborough brings both the expertise and a vision that could radically altar the way we shop in the future.
If he can pull it off, we could see PayPal registers in every major retailer and perhaps your church!
